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HassleCat

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13. Randroids could find one

Reply to JanMichael (Original post)

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 06:37 PM

Jun 2015

The old "burdensome regulation" thing is an appeal to people who read too much Ayn Rand, or people who get too much of it secondhand. They feel they would be hugely successful and rich, except that they were somehow cheated, denied the big break, stifled, kept from realizing their full potential, etc. And who did this? Why, the shadowy, nearly invisible, faceless bureaucrats in the federal gummit, of course.

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Can anyone, yes anyone, name a common nationwide local gov't "unnecessary burden"? [View all] JanMichael Jun 2015 OP

Here in Portland, there was some consternation about small business "street fees" Maedhros Jun 2015 #1

Nationwide is Portlandia? Wow. And I thought I was egotistic. JanMichael Jun 2015 #2

I imagine most cities and townships have some kind of "street fee" for businesses. Maedhros Jun 2015 #3

Which covers cleanup and other maintenance and security in business districts I would gather. JanMichael Jun 2015 #5

You asked for an example, and they gave one. Warren DeMontague Jun 2015 #14

Hmmmmm Sherman A1 Jun 2015 #16

The claim that govt is "in the way of business" is a conservative religious belief, not factual. phantom power Jun 2015 #4

It is that. We pay out our nose to the Duke Enrgy's and Comcasts and somehow think 10/m... JanMichael Jun 2015 #7

If the local gov't is subsidizing a Walmart, that might make things difficult arcane1 Jun 2015 #6

Through tax incentives & abatement's? Sometimes I agree they suck and sometimes it works. JanMichael Jun 2015 #9

That was mostly sarcasm, that WM makes it hard for smaller businesses to compete w/them arcane1 Jun 2015 #11

Gotcha. Long day two beers and no irony or sarcasm meter working now! nt JanMichael Jun 2015 #12

Dunno, but I'll tell you a story jberryhill Jun 2015 #8

Bingo. Plus in most areas municipal regs are in Spanish too. JanMichael Jun 2015 #10

+1 n/t lumberjack_jeff Jun 2015 #17

You should have offered to fixed it for her... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #18

Heh... jberryhill Jun 2015 #19

Randroids could find one HassleCat Jun 2015 #13

I always ask those chowder heads if they'd prefer things to be ran by say, Comcast instead. HornBuckler Jun 2015 #15